Agent Skill

Migrate Radix To Base skill

migrate-radix-to-baseshadcn-ui/uiskills/migrate-radix-to-base/SKILL.md

Migrates React projects and components from Radix UI to Base UI. Use when asked to migrate from radix, move to base-ui, convert radix primitives, or switch a shadcn project's base library. Handles single components ("migrate accordion") and whole projects.

126kMIT

always on

61 tokname + description

once used

2,175 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

9163 KB

repo stars

126kGitHub

Install the Migrate Radix To Base skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui --skill migrate-radix-to-base

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui.git /tmp/ui
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/ui/skills/migrate-radix-to-base ~/.claude/skills/migrate-radix-to-base

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

When	What loads	Cost
Every session	Name and description	61 tok
When the agent uses it	The SKILL.md instructions	2,175 tok
Only if opened	9 bundled files (163 KB)	varies

Until it is used, migrate-radix-to-base costs about 22× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 4 skills from shadcn-ui/ui would load 348 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

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